Dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux

Dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux

[KimM]

Hi all

I need support for dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux. Currently there's four
ways of doing this: cmdlineparsing, Redboot, ARM way or my own way. 

For various reasons I won't use the cmdline, so it's either Redboot or ARM, in which
case my preference is Redboot since I assume that it's more likely to be maintained in
the future. Unfortunately I do not use Redboot, but u-boot, so I have to develop
my own tool for writing the partition tables.

Of course, there are several ways to go about this, but I prefer a generic Linux
tool which can create/modify the partition table. This way I can run the tool
on both my host and target and create partitions as images or at runtime.

But before I go ahead, I want to get some opinions whether to use the Redboot 
or ARM tables. And of course, I would very must like to know if a 
tool already exists...:)

Thanks
KimM

Re: Dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux

[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

Hello KimM,

KimM wrote:
> I need support for dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux. Currently there's four
> ways of doing this: cmdlineparsing, Redboot, ARM way or my own way. 
> 

Please, pay your attention to UBI:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html

This is a new technology, so no barand boot-loaders support it yet. But 
it is completely "dynamic".

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.